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Nic Jones
Nic Jones hasn't been the same since he first heard the Art Ensemble Of Chicago and Anthony Braxton's quartet with Kenny Wheeler around 40 years ago. He lives in Oxfordshire, quietly and curiously.
Sonny Clark, Fragile Virtuoso
Pianist Sonny Clark, given the regularity with which he - in common with quite a few others - recorded for Blue Note either as...
Reviewed: Paul Dunmall, Kevin Figes, Julie Tippetts | Pinky Winters | Nano Brothers | Anna Webber | Hubbub | Miguel Zenón | Wayne Escoffery
The arguably embattled "jazz community" continues on a path which, in keeping with the rest of the so-called music industry, seems intent on the...
Reviewed: David Haney | Scarla O’Horror | Anna Marie | Marilyn Maye
David Haney: four albums on Cadence and New York Jazz Stories
Pianist David Haney's put out a number of albums this time round, including appearances...
Yours Truly, John
John Stubblefield was of a jazz generation that was thoroughly grounded in the music’s values yet open to new developments, in his case with...
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Reviewed: Steve Baczkowski | Niklas Fite & Gunter Christmann | Sentient Beings | Keir Cooper + Eleanor Westbrook | Kuba
As what passed for summer in the UK turns distinctly to autumn / the downpour season, the tide of jazz-related "product" proves impervious to...
Petra van Nuis: singing beyond the words
Petra van Nuis is a Chicago-based jazz vocalist whom Bruce Crowther described as "an exceptionally gifted singer with a light yet subtly textured sound"...
Louis Armstrong: Louis In London
First audio release for 1968 BBCTV set featuring Tyree Glenn, Joe Muranyi, Marty Napoleon, Buddy Catlett and Danny Barcelona
Tony Oxley Quintet: Angular Apron
Drummer Oxley is heard with Manfred Schoof, Larry Stabbins, Pat Thomas and Sirone in an hour-long improvisation in Germany in 1992
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Fingers: The Complete Fingers Remember Mingus
Quintet featuring Lol Coxhill, Bruce Turner, Michael Garrick, Dave Green and Alan Jackson wanders the line between bop and free
Eternal Triangle: Gravity
Saxophonist Trevor Watts is heard - with Veryan Weston and Jamie Muir - in an unusually inside set dominated by modal funk and ethnic vamps
Black Artist Group: For Peace And Liberty In Paris, Dec 1972
Group including Baikida E.J. Carroll, Joseph Bowie and Oliver Lake plays free, spiritual and funk in a previously unissued radio set
Ackley, Centazzo, Chen, DeGruttola, Kaiser, Manring: Two Views Of Steve Lacy’s The Wire
The label says that this new reading of Steve Lacy's angular 1977 mixture of free and composed music is "curating history"
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